Okay, you masochists. You know you want to see it. Oh, I resisted, because I knew it was going to be beyond embarassing, but I caved too. I'm referring, of course, to Connie Chung's acapella farewell on top of a piano on the last episode of MSNBC's beyond-bad "Weekends with Maury & Connie." Remember how excited Rick Kaplan was about this show? Ah, memories.
Anyway, now Connie's telling the NYT's Jacques Steinberg of course it was a joke, silly! Well, here's the rule: if you have to tell people it's a joke, it's a massively unsuccessful one. Because quite honestly, there is an element of dead-serious drama-queenish "Fabulous Baker Boys" tragic seriousness to Connie's performance. I think she really wanted to have it both ways--get credit for having a great sense of humor and get credit for being a beauty pageant contestant of sorts--but what smart women know is that while yes, you can have and be both, you can only do one at a time.
Here's the video, and don't say I didn't warn you.
